Regulating cannabis: The right way to do drugs

The government represses the industry at home while helping it to sell abroad

The government is rebuilding its discredited statistics institute

The argument for the legalisation of cannabis has been won.

IT IS like a hash-induced hallucination: row upon row of lush, budding plants, tended by white-coated technicians who are bothered by the authorities only when it is time to pay their taxes. Cannabis once grew in secret, traded by murderous cartels and smoked by consumers who risked jail. @TheEconomist: A new commission report calls for the decriminalisation of drugs. But how should we regulate them? #econarchive